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Texel is open source (09.07.2020 - 20:50 Uhr)

Thomas Much has released the source code of his spreadsheet Texel. Texel was the last and also most modern spreadsheet for the ST, with variable line heights and support for vector fonts. A special feature was the extensive support of OLGA (also by Much): With OLGA and a suitable second application, graphics and diagrams could be integrated into Texel (picture: integration with ArtWorx). The program could be remote controlled via the GEMScript protocol. The last version released was 2.2, but a small update to version 2.30 was still in beta testing. The spreadsheet was developed with a modified version of Pure Pascal.

https://github.com/thmuch/texel

(mj)

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COPS without WDIALOG (20.07.2020 - 17:50 Uhr)

CPX modules are indispensable for configuring Ataris. Unfortunately, the only open source CPX server, COPS, has one disadvantage: It depends on the operating system extension WDIALOG. But now there are efforts to eliminate this dependency from COPS, and the updated version is part of the FreeMint snapshot builds. Developer Thorsten Otto points out that certain CPX modules that require MagiC or WDIALOG functionality will still depend on these two programs.

COPS appeared as an alternative to Atari's XControl and is compatible with its CPC modules. Additionally, COPS has its own CPX format with variable window size, the CPXe modules. The latter did not catch on like the other modular alternatives (EPXE and HPG). zControl was more oriented towards XControl, Freedom2 combined an alternative file selector with a CPX server. However, the source code of these two programs was never released.

https://freemint.github.io/

(mj)

Texel is open source (09.07.2020 - 20:50 Uhr)

Thomas Much has released the source code of his spreadsheet Texel. Texel was the last and also most modern spreadsheet for the ST, with variable line heights and support for vector fonts. A special feature was the extensive support of OLGA (also by Much): With OLGA and a suitable second application, graphics and diagrams could be integrated into Texel (picture: integration with ArtWorx). The program could be remote controlled via the GEMScript protocol. The last version released was 2.2, but a small update to version 2.30 was still in beta testing. The spreadsheet was developed with a modified version of Pure Pascal.

https://github.com/thmuch/texel

(mj)